Rewinding to Tuesday 16 January 1996…
Tuesday · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
The world on 16 January 1996 in Seongnam-si.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of -3°C in Seongnam-si.
-3°C/ 26°F high
Low of -10°C · dry · wind up to 33 km/h
The sun rose at 07:44 and set at 17:37 — 9h 52m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
23% lit · 24.9 days into its cycle
Looking up from Seongnam-si that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 367,540 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “One Sweet Day”
by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks, taking over from “Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (From "Waiting To Exhale")”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
South Korea’s shop prices from 1996 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1996-01-16
BREAD COSTS 2.1× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
1,607 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
30 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Tuesday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Pig
Wood Pig
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Tuesday
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